This web site is the Home Page to your introductory tour of Fundamentals of Law BULAW1502. This web site will provide you with the basic orientation to the topics to be covered within this subject.  In addition to providing you with some useful study hints and resources. Fundamentals of law contains the following topic areas. Each of these topic areas can be explored in greater detail using the site navigation feature on the left.

Topic A: Frameworks of Australian law:

1. What is ‘the law’ and where do you find it?
2. How does law interact with business and the community?
3. What legal systems exist, which one do we have in Australia and why?
4. How does the Australian legal system operate?
5. How are case law and legislation made, changed and developed?
6. How are legal problems ‘solved’?

Topic B: Contract law:

1. What is the source of contract law?
2. How do you know you have a contract?
3. How do you know what your rights and obligations are under the contract?
4. How do you know if a contract is valid and enforceable, including in an online environment?
5. How do you know when a contract has come to an end?
6. What rights do you have if a contract is breached?

Topic C: Tort law:

1. What is a tort?
2. What are the principles of the tort of negligence? What are the principles governing occupier’s liability? How do these principles affect businesses and the community?
3. What are the principles of professional negligence and how do they affect business professionals and the community?
4. What is vicarious liability? Who does it affect, and how?
5. What reforms have been made or are being proposed, why? And what will their effect be?

Topic D: An introduction to business structures:

1. Under what structures can business operate?
2. What are the respective advantages and disadvantages of these structures?

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